@@0ddcasemusic En vérité, il se trouves le même nombre d'anglicisms chez le français de France, mais ils croient faussement que c'est du français, et il savent pas prononcer les mots comme il faut 😜 -> "stop", "baskets", "parking", "footing", "iced latte"....
@@fifty7beats Yes that stereo solution was new to me. Lovely piano to. Seriously almost brought tears to my eyes. But I'm an old man so what one would expect I guess. One thing though. The lpg is more a low pass gate than a low pass filter, or that's where it shines the most, because honestly, as a regular filter it's not in any way amazing. Also kudos to your old school british documentary style, and lovely and fitting the mentioning of your wife. Subbed now because of this.
as a hungarian who owns quite a few canadian effect pedals i can confirm that they must smoke the best serbo-croatian leaf in existence. empress, fairfield and industrialectric make the coolest pedals.
Yeah, I discovered a patch on my Microfreak that could do stuff like that with the low pass filter. I tweaked it slightly to make it more my flavor of sound but I used it in a song for a cool warbly tape effect. I manually rode the cutoff and resonance knobs to get the sound for about 4 bars I think and then looped it.
Low Pass Gates are my favourite things in the world of synthesis, shame to see this feature undersold here but I get how it’s an easy mistake for someone to make
@@vinc6 Most LPG use vactrol. But there are also other LPG... „It is an electrical circuit that combines elements of amplifiers and low-pass filters“ (stromkult.com)
I don’t follow why you need the re-amp box. This is a line compatible pedal, from the manual: MORE CONTROL INSIDE BOOST AND PAD There are 2 jumpers at the input stage to match your input signal’s level and impedance. By default, BOOST is on, PAD is off; a typical set- ting for high impedance, low output signals like a guitar’s single coil pickups. If the user finds there is too much distortion at the input stage, moving the BOOST jumper to its off position will reduce overall gain by 6 dB. If the signal source is line- level, the PAD can be set to its on position, giving another 6 dB of gain reduction while also reducing the input impedance by a factor of 10.
I love mine, but found it imparts a healthy amount of noise/hum into my signal. The low pass gate (not filter) is so magical because it responds to the dynamic of the input material. Breathes so much life into anything, the more dynamic the better.
A rather Canadian episode. Radial devices are made in Vancouver, while Fairfield pedals are made just across the river from me in Gatineau, Quebec. I've had the pleasure of chatting with Guillaume Fairfield many times, and attended a dinner with him, and the folks from Chase Bliss and Empress (which is made on *this* side of the same river, in Ottawa). Lovely bunch of guys, all of them. Guillaume always tries to have his pedals do something that few, if any, other pedals do. Very smart guy. And as much as the legending and look seem like they were intended to look "cool", really it was a way of not having to be concerned about legending wearing off or paint chipping on the finish. A friend of Guillaume's does the lettering with an old-fashioned bang-it-in stencil set.
Little note: Intruments signals such as guitar's have a high impedance (it's wrote on your reamp box "Hi-Z") whereas line signal is much hotter signal (also modular is much higher than line) and have a low impedance. Using a reamp or a DI box solve that issue by using a OP amp or a transformer (for higher hand DI box) to adapt impedance.
Geez, I was excited when you were holding that pedal in your hands in your last video, imagine seeing this! The friends at Fairfield are neighbors (Hull represent!); good people, good builders... I love their delay pedal (Maude), I used it on many things over the years. And my wife is Croatian, so this video really spoke to me! :) Thanks, Christian!
To quote from the Secret Life of Walter Mitty: "Beautiful things don't ask for attention". I feel that this is much more true for the sound from this effects box than it is for it's looks.
I am a guitar player and due to a shoulder injury I am unable to play. So I recently turned my attention to sample libraries and analogue synths. Having (too many?) guitar pedals I have been experimenting in sound creation. Th Chase Bliss Automatone is the ultimate in cool. It is VERY expensive but worth every penny . Loads of TH-cam videos showing the pedal and its capabilities Well worth a look IMHO.
Those flautando strings through that pedal are wonderful. I'm definitely going to explore using tape wobbles, and pitchy chorus/tremolos on intimate scenes on soft strings. Sounds great!
tiny correction : the microcontroller, the only digital component of the pedal, is the thing generating the random modulation voltage, so the signal path is 100% analog
Stumbled upon this thru a web search; laughing out loud; loving it; three minutes in and we're out on the hill and I've forgotten what I came here for, forgotten what the video is about (he hasn't gotten to that specific point yet) and I'm loving it so much more than so much else.
I came for the review and iuAt 1:32 you killed me. 🤣🤣🤣 “the only building I’ve ever seen with sweat stains…” I wish every review I watched could be this honest and blunt.
Being into playing music and gear in general taught me things about people. If there's anything somebody considers to be an undesirable defect - some will find a way to enjoy this broken thing, and turn it into a thing of beauty. I love this about music, and people. This is a gorgeous pedal. If used intelligently and with good care it can just sprinkle a little bit of magic on your recorded stuff.
It certainly adds a pleasing, sonically nostalgic emotion to any sound run through it, - I wonder if younger ears experience the same emotional attachment to the sounds created with a machine like this, compared to those of us who grew up using tape? Love to ALL, feel no hate
You get all the upvotes I can give! Amazing content as always. And Yeah I ordered one as soon as I heard that stereo piano. The question now is: should I get 2? :)
What a gratifying piece of kit! It reminds me a bit of the ZVex Instant LoFi Junky pedal. Thanks for the video, Christian! Cheers from South Wales, NY, USA. - chaz
It really is a stunning pedal, I can't believe it's a digital effect? Wow I agree the warble does have a very sad and Brocken sound, which I thunk we all can relate to that. Thanks for sharing! Excellent presentation
One of those special sauce pedals that are addictive to slap on everything ... nothing wrong with a blue LED, they are things of purity and great beauty. Great video Christian, I tried to do a winter voice recording but couldn't hold a note satisfactorily for 8 seconds and got very frustrated with myself ... I will watch on with interest!
Awesome! Im still amazed more people don't talk about the SnazzyFX Wow & Flutter though .It's quite similar to this, its more a tape delay, but you can get similar stuff to the Fairfield. I use the eurorack module version of it and it's probably my favourite "analog" delay i owned, which includes an RE-301. Having CV control over the randomness leads to some very organic or crazy stuff.
Random oscillation is the thing we didn't quite know we needed. It does something to the brain, keeps it engaged, the way we know predictable oscillations sort of disappear, or become gratuitous. They always should have been a bit random perhaps, like human-made vibrato. If you'll forgive...our 'inner child' stays engaged. Whether because it's organic, honest, vulnerable, true. It is to take on imperfection willingly. Eyes open(be a human on earth). Forego the cheap pride of superficial/counterfeit adornments and 'airs'... Now we're talking...just be humble.
Always a great idea to experiment with pedals and keyboards. The winter voices is really picking up now and it sounds beautiful. Can't wait for the finished version! Well done everyone :)
I live in Montreal and have a Fairfield Circuitry Shallow Water pedal. I've used it on a Solina String machine and it was fabulous. There is one pedal from Retroactive Pedals called Dotchaser (its a delay) but it can add gentle distortion to your sources, not its main intention and it sounds so very good.
Picked one up a while back and love this pedal, especially when used subtly. You slightly confused me there in the description though, thinking that this was a new pedal from Fairfield Circuitry though, calling it 'Deep Water' when in fact it's still 'Shallow Water' as far as I know! Oh, you trickster you!
@@nrg242 yes, a little surprising that Christian hasn't updated it as yet as I'm sure there are lots of confused viewers out there thinking wondering where to find such an exclusive pedal, that doesn't even exist! :-)
@@RobinRimbaudScanner, I wonder how a Deep Water pedal would actually play out. I could hear this being combined with a really strange Fairfield like reverb, maybe in stereo although stereo doesn’t seem to be their way.
if I saw car #1 being used for an Asda shopping trip I'd consider that infinitely cooler than car #2 sat in someone's showroom somewhere. Same with the pedals - all about how you use them, regardless of form factor
Serbo-Croatian still exists, although Serbia and Croatia are separate countries. With that sorted, Shallow Water is amazing. However ,there is a monster comming around the corner for about 400 quid - Generational Loss MK2, with much more to offer. Preordered it, it is loaded with tape models, all sorts of goodies you might want to find on a Boards of Canada in a pedal device :)
Sounds similar to Hainbach's East German wire recorder. Probably a bit too niche for me to justify the expense, but it's very tempting as I love wobbly modulation effects.
There's a free plugin for Reaktor called Deep Water which is one of my most used plugins. Just realized it's the same exact controls as this and an emulation. I love the plugin so I bet the hardware is amazing
Another great pedal that gets into the same sort of area, in regards to giving music a peculiar vibe (but not really the same type of sonic results, at all) is the Black Fountain by Old Blood Noise Endeavours. Fairfield Circuitry are a fantastic company though. They do great stuff. Anyway, great video. Keep up the excellent wok.
Needs to be a Eurorack module, I hear quite a few things like this used on peoples tracks and they nearly always over-do it with it ending up being quite hard to listen to as some warbling annoyance.
It sits right next to my Meet Maude. She is equally cool. Deliciously dark. Shallow Water is deep enough that you never stop being surprised by what it is doing, but used right it is ever so subtle; beautifully musical and so nice to just let it breathe in the background. Under water. The Fairfield pedals impart a tonal thing that is hard to describe, just sideways from your real tone, but an alternate tone nonetheless. Sometimes the shift the Shallow Water creates reminds me of those rubber knee reflex mallets the doctor uses to randomly turn your leg into jello😂
Do I need preamp? for my shallow water pedal to work properly? I just got mine and i plugged in Into my synth/guitar directly and honestly it doesn’t do much, it doesn’t have the effect it does in this (or any other demo) video, it almost does nothing to the sound. Or did i receive a broken version?
Oh mighty merciful overlord, please give us a flautando patch for LABS on Christmas this year. It's just so beautiful. Is their a way to get that sound using the discover library. I tried to EQ the longs and added a lush reverb but it sounds too synth-ish. I need something emotive and magical. I have another request. Can you make a video on how to make woodwinds section sound real. For eg: when should one use a solo oboe as opposed to many oboes. I try to arrange by ear but sometimes I can't tell if I'm doing the right thing and end up wasting time because it sounded great in my head but I'm not able to fit it in context.
Got mine a few weeks ago and loving it. They do need a stereo version. I’ve been trying to copy the sound of the intro credits to Scarface for years. This helps.
Cool vid... 😎 It's interesting to see your ideas here. I have the Glowfly/Wraa labs Retroflect lofi tape simulator, and coupled it with the Meris 'Blade Runneresque' Mercury7. But I only used it for one part just to add something 'cool'. The idea of adding multiple tracks run through the tape sim and then using the Mercury7 to tie it all together will be the next experiment. Thoroughly enjoyed this vid...
@@mikkelfrederiksen5567 I can't think of any cheaper off the top of my head. The Cooper and ZVex are my other favorites and they're all on the expensive side too. I think if you have modulated reverb and delay maybe with a bit of a dirt pedal you already might have here you can cut the lows out can get you in this zone.
It is quite an experience when Christian cranking up the distortion exactly at the same time when you are adjusting the volume on your amp 😳😬 And yes, blue lights are cool, although violet is even cooler. Not sure about bow ties though...
thank you so much for this beautifully crafted Pedal Production. Both the pedal and your [well, a review wouldn't do justice to the amount of work you've put in this and the wonderful musical results] are one of a kind! A big thanks to the Fair Circus as well
This goes out to everyone that is trying to be cool: it is inherently impossible, because cool is something that is perceived by the observer and never by the cool individual themselves. So you can only perceive "coolness" in others, never in yourself.
I can confirm that 1. Canada is cool and 2. Serbo-Croatian is easier to understand than Canadian French ;)
T'as-tu deux piasses mon chum?
@@everestwitman Lol c'est ça également. Ce qui me rend fou est tous les anglicismes.
@@0ddcasemusic En vérité, il se trouves le même nombre d'anglicisms chez le français de France, mais ils croient faussement que c'est du français, et il savent pas prononcer les mots comme il faut 😜 -> "stop", "baskets", "parking", "footing", "iced latte"....
@@everestwitman Ah ok, je vois ce que tu veux dire.
@@0ddcasemusic J'essaie de changer le monde... une personne à la fois sur l'internet 😂
Love this pedal, and very, uhm, cool processing in stereo!
loopop love your videos ;)
@@fifty7beats thanks!
@@fifty7beats Yes that stereo solution was new to me. Lovely piano to. Seriously almost brought tears to my eyes. But I'm an old man so what one would expect I guess.
One thing though. The lpg is more a low pass gate than a low pass filter, or that's where it shines the most, because honestly, as a regular filter it's not in any way amazing.
Also kudos to your old school british documentary style, and lovely and fitting the mentioning of your wife. Subbed now because of this.
as a hungarian who owns quite a few canadian effect pedals i can confirm that they must smoke the best serbo-croatian leaf in existence. empress, fairfield and industrialectric make the coolest pedals.
One thing: Low Pass Gate, not just filter! A LPF that reacts to dynamics.
Yeah, I discovered a patch on my Microfreak that could do stuff like that with the low pass filter. I tweaked it slightly to make it more my flavor of sound but I used it in a song for a cool warbly tape effect. I manually rode the cutoff and resonance knobs to get the sound for about 4 bars I think and then looped it.
Low Pass Gates are my favourite things in the world of synthesis, shame to see this feature undersold here but I get how it’s an easy mistake for someone to make
@@evanlynch6897 Yeah, I didn't necessarily realize that was possible until I stumbled on that patched and tweaked it. But, it was a fun realization!
@@galacticecho7027 🤔
@@vinc6 Most LPG use vactrol. But there are also other LPG...
„It is an electrical circuit that combines elements of amplifiers and low-pass filters“ (stromkult.com)
I don’t follow why you need the re-amp box. This is a line compatible pedal, from the manual:
MORE CONTROL INSIDE
BOOST AND PAD
There are 2 jumpers at the input stage to match your input signal’s level and impedance. By default, BOOST is on, PAD is off; a typical set-
ting for high impedance, low output signals like a guitar’s single coil pickups. If the user finds there is too much distortion at the input stage, moving the BOOST jumper to its off position will reduce overall gain by 6 dB. If the signal source is line- level, the PAD can be set to its on position, giving another 6 dB of gain reduction while also reducing the input impedance by a factor of 10.
Fairfield Circuitry is a very interesting company. Almost all the pedals they make are weird, weird, weird. But weirdly useful in the right hands.
Yes, I very much appreciated their ‘Unpleasant Surprise’ pedal.
I love mine, but found it imparts a healthy amount of noise/hum into my signal. The low pass gate (not filter) is so magical because it responds to the dynamic of the input material. Breathes so much life into anything, the more dynamic the better.
Started floating away from my desk around 16 minutes and swam back through the air to comment
A rather Canadian episode. Radial devices are made in Vancouver, while Fairfield pedals are made just across the river from me in Gatineau, Quebec. I've had the pleasure of chatting with Guillaume Fairfield many times, and attended a dinner with him, and the folks from Chase Bliss and Empress (which is made on *this* side of the same river, in Ottawa). Lovely bunch of guys, all of them. Guillaume always tries to have his pedals do something that few, if any, other pedals do. Very smart guy. And as much as the legending and look seem like they were intended to look "cool", really it was a way of not having to be concerned about legending wearing off or paint chipping on the finish. A friend of Guillaume's does the lettering with an old-fashioned bang-it-in stencil set.
my takeaway from this is I'm totally going to split sampled instruments into left and right channels and do different processing on them now
"But this lemon squeezer looks very cool but can't squeeze lemons for shit" 😂😂 ...seriously laughed out loud.
Lemon squeezer would make a great pedal name --- shock yer ballz !
I did as well…he should do stand up :) I died with the “the only building I’ve ever seen with sweat stains.. “
Little note: Intruments signals such as guitar's have a high impedance (it's wrote on your reamp box "Hi-Z") whereas line signal is much hotter signal (also modular is much higher than line) and have a low impedance.
Using a reamp or a DI box solve that issue by using a OP amp or a transformer (for higher hand DI box) to adapt impedance.
Geez, I was excited when you were holding that pedal in your hands in your last video, imagine seeing this! The friends at Fairfield are neighbors (Hull represent!); good people, good builders... I love their delay pedal (Maude), I used it on many things over the years. And my wife is Croatian, so this video really spoke to me! :) Thanks, Christian!
To quote from the Secret Life of Walter Mitty: "Beautiful things don't ask for attention". I feel that this is much more true for the sound from this effects box than it is for it's looks.
That's a beautiful quote. I think I should really set aside some time to watch this movie. Also, yeah The Shallow Water pedal is undeniably cool 😎
Fairfield do make some wonderful sounding pedals, this is no exception.
I am a guitar player and due to a shoulder injury I am unable to play. So I recently turned my attention to sample libraries and analogue synths. Having (too many?) guitar pedals I have been experimenting in sound creation. Th Chase Bliss Automatone is the ultimate in cool. It is VERY expensive but worth every penny . Loads of TH-cam videos showing the pedal and its capabilities Well worth a look IMHO.
Enjoyed your discussion about "cool". Very inspiring!!
Those flautando strings through that pedal are wonderful. I'm definitely going to explore using tape wobbles, and pitchy chorus/tremolos on intimate scenes on soft strings. Sounds great!
Yeah, the strings were pretty amazing sounding.
tiny correction : the microcontroller, the only digital component of the pedal, is the thing generating the random modulation voltage, so the signal path is 100% analog
I wish there was a pedal that does only that
Naw there's definitely a pt2399 doing the vibrato
@@AndrossUT nope. It's a v3207d bucket brigade chip. There are no pt2399 in this pedal
@@AndrossUT why you randomly talking BS about stuff you have no clue on?
@@ripwildy2022 just to anger you personally.
Really loved what it did to those samples. Great watch and listen!
You've discovered my favorite pedal!! Have fun.
This has to be *the* best pedal demo in the history of music.
It's nice, but the best?
@@Da_Publick Yes.
Stumbled upon this thru a web search; laughing out loud; loving it; three minutes in and we're out on the hill and I've forgotten what I came here for, forgotten what the video is about (he hasn't gotten to that specific point yet) and I'm loving it so much more than so much else.
Loving that they included a low pass gate in this design. The Make Noise Optomix has a lovely vactrol controlled lpg and it sounds beautiful.
I came for the review and iuAt 1:32 you killed me. 🤣🤣🤣 “the only building I’ve ever seen with sweat stains…” I wish every review I watched could be this honest and blunt.
Firewood Piano through a Deep Water pedal literally pulls emotion out of you in bucket loads....quite a special thing indeed
Being into playing music and gear in general taught me things about people. If there's anything somebody considers to be an undesirable defect - some will find a way to enjoy this broken thing, and turn it into a thing of beauty. I love this about music, and people. This is a gorgeous pedal. If used intelligently and with good care it can just sprinkle a little bit of magic on your recorded stuff.
"...is that it?" i've never laughed so loud haha. Thanks for making this Christian!
Ricky Tinez love your videos too bro ;)
“MUMMY!” 9:39
Perfect reaction 😭
Awesome video. It's very detailed and shows a loving interest in this pedals (& sound design). It's the coolest pedal review I've seen on TH-cam.
It certainly adds a pleasing, sonically nostalgic emotion to any sound run through it, - I wonder if younger ears experience the same emotional attachment to the sounds created with a machine like this, compared to those of us who grew up using tape?
Love to ALL, feel no hate
That's actually a really good question, seeing as these types of effects might seem to rely on a certain sense of nostalgia.
As a "younger" person that didn't really grow up on tape, I can confirm the emotion still transfers
@@yareshs - Thank you for the answer Yaresh, much appreciated.
I was born in the 2000s and I absolutely love these sounds
You get all the upvotes I can give! Amazing content as always. And Yeah I ordered one as soon as I heard that stereo piano. The question now is: should I get 2? :)
What a gratifying piece of kit! It reminds me a bit of the ZVex Instant LoFi Junky pedal. Thanks for the video, Christian! Cheers from South Wales, NY, USA. - chaz
Piece of kit? Ouch.
Beautiful string harmonic progression and voicings - I can hear Mahler influence. Thank you 🙏
I love this pedal. It takes my Roland Juno 6 and magically transforms it into a Roland Jupiter 4.
interesting, unique and thought provoking video as per usual
It really is a stunning pedal, I can't believe it's a digital effect? Wow
I agree the warble does have a very sad and Brocken sound, which I thunk we all can relate to that.
Thanks for sharing! Excellent presentation
It’s analog. Only the random modulation is made by micro processor. (Digital) like chase bliss audio
That's the beauty of Behringer synthesizer users. They don't give a damn if it's cool or not. It works, and works good
One of those special sauce pedals that are addictive to slap on everything ... nothing wrong with a blue LED, they are things of purity and great beauty.
Great video Christian, I tried to do a winter voice recording but couldn't hold a note satisfactorily for 8 seconds and got very frustrated with myself ... I will watch on with interest!
Awesome! Im still amazed more people don't talk about the SnazzyFX Wow & Flutter though .It's quite similar to this, its more a tape delay, but you can get similar stuff to the Fairfield. I use the eurorack module version of it and it's probably my favourite "analog" delay i owned, which includes an RE-301. Having CV control over the randomness leads to some very organic or crazy stuff.
Man, I really like your ideas. Cool pedal featured here. thx
As soon as I picked up the shallow water I put it over an orchestral string piece I’m working on and my heart broke into little pieces and washed away
Random oscillation is the thing we didn't quite know we needed. It does something to the brain, keeps it engaged, the way we know predictable oscillations sort of disappear, or become gratuitous. They always should have been a bit random perhaps, like human-made vibrato. If you'll forgive...our 'inner child' stays engaged. Whether because it's organic, honest, vulnerable, true. It is to take on imperfection willingly. Eyes open(be a human on earth). Forego the cheap pride of superficial/counterfeit adornments and 'airs'... Now we're talking...just be humble.
I got a Shallow Water a few days ago. I reckon it might be the coolest effects unit ever.
Always a great idea to experiment with pedals and keyboards.
The winter voices is really picking up now and it sounds beautiful. Can't wait for the finished version!
Well done everyone :)
I like the 70's lofi film look to your video!
boy...you went ALL out on this one. WOW !!
I live in Montreal and have a Fairfield Circuitry Shallow Water pedal. I've used it on a Solina String machine and it was fabulous. There is one pedal from Retroactive Pedals called Dotchaser (its a delay) but it can add gentle distortion to your sources, not its main intention and it sounds so very good.
This is the coolest effects pedal ever. But putting really pretty music into it helps. Thanks.
Tape Saturation. So satisfying.
I wasn’t too impressed until you ran the violin strings through it. Then I immediately resolved to want, badly.
Unique video, love this pedal for synths also and I'm glad to hear your take on it!
What’s cool is where you walk your dogs! 😳 Beautiful!
I wasn't expecting the stereo to sound so wide, thought it would be a lot more phasey in the centre. Very cool pedal
Very cool pedal indeed. And such amazing craftsmanship putting these videos together. You are a generous contributor to the music community.
Picked one up a while back and love this pedal, especially when used subtly. You slightly confused me there in the description though, thinking that this was a new pedal from Fairfield Circuitry though, calling it 'Deep Water' when in fact it's still 'Shallow Water' as far as I know! Oh, you trickster you!
same here. was about to rush over to Reverb to try and find one before i figured it was a mistake.
@@nrg242 yes, a little surprising that Christian hasn't updated it as yet as I'm sure there are lots of confused viewers out there thinking wondering where to find such an exclusive pedal, that doesn't even exist! :-)
Oh please, though🤣 Anything they make that is weird is going to be great!
@@christopherecatalano true, but most certainly a challenge if you are searching for 'Deep Water'! 😂
@@RobinRimbaudScanner, I wonder how a Deep Water pedal would actually play out. I could hear this being combined with a really strange Fairfield like reverb, maybe in stereo although stereo doesn’t seem to be their way.
if I saw car #1 being used for an Asda shopping trip I'd consider that infinitely cooler than car #2 sat in someone's showroom somewhere. Same with the pedals - all about how you use them, regardless of form factor
Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey.
Its definitely cool.
(Me quoting Dr Who shows I'm definitely not cool)
Another brilliant video. Cheers mate!
Serbo-Croatian still exists, although Serbia and Croatia are separate countries. With that sorted, Shallow Water is amazing. However ,there is a monster comming around the corner for about 400 quid - Generational Loss MK2, with much more to offer. Preordered it, it is loaded with tape models, all sorts of goodies you might want to find on a Boards of Canada in a pedal device :)
That intro was very *cool*
Sounds similar to Hainbach's East German wire recorder. Probably a bit too niche for me to justify the expense, but it's very tempting as I love wobbly modulation effects.
There's a free plugin for Reaktor called Deep Water which is one of my most used plugins. Just realized it's the same exact controls as this and an emulation. I love the plugin so I bet the hardware is amazing
Another great pedal that gets into the same sort of area, in regards to giving music a peculiar vibe (but not really the same type of sonic results, at all) is the Black Fountain by Old Blood Noise Endeavours.
Fairfield Circuitry are a fantastic company though. They do great stuff.
Anyway, great video. Keep up the excellent wok.
caught this by accicent because of the pedal -- fab use in the studio - ta luv
Love my Shallow Water! Thanks for this. So nicely described.
Awesome! I can see my name in the samples list of Logic! Btw that pedal is REALLY COOl!
Needs to be a Eurorack module, I hear quite a few things like this used on peoples tracks and they nearly always over-do it with it ending up being quite hard to listen to as some warbling annoyance.
I like the sound of this pedal very much.
It sits right next to my Meet Maude. She is equally cool. Deliciously dark. Shallow Water is deep enough that you never stop being surprised by what it is doing, but used right it is ever so subtle; beautifully musical and so nice to just let it breathe in the background. Under water. The Fairfield pedals impart a tonal thing that is hard to describe, just sideways from your real tone, but an alternate tone nonetheless. Sometimes the shift the Shallow Water creates reminds me of those rubber knee reflex mallets the doctor uses to randomly turn your leg into jello😂
I have that lemon squeezer, its actually for making orange juice and it works really well. My dad paid way too much money for it 20 years ago though
Mate, instantly subscribed. That intro is quite something.
Do I need preamp? for my shallow water pedal to work properly? I just got mine and i plugged in Into my synth/guitar directly and honestly it doesn’t do much, it doesn’t have the effect it does in this (or any other demo) video, it almost does nothing to the sound. Or did i receive a broken version?
@Christian Henson, absolutely love this pedal, but can I ask what cables you had plugged into the SW were pretty please?
Oh mighty merciful overlord, please give us a flautando patch for LABS on Christmas this year. It's just so beautiful. Is their a way to get that sound using the discover library. I tried to EQ the longs and added a lush reverb but it sounds too synth-ish. I need something emotive and magical. I have another request. Can you make a video on how to make woodwinds section sound real. For eg: when should one use a solo oboe as opposed to many oboes. I try to arrange by ear but sometimes I can't tell if I'm doing the right thing and end up wasting time because it sounded great in my head but I'm not able to fit it in context.
How are you feeling about it a year later?
Got mine a few weeks ago and loving it. They do need a stereo version. I’ve been trying to copy the sound of the intro credits to Scarface for years. This helps.
That is a great sounding pedal. Definitely on my list. Thanks for this video🥂
This is the coolest video I have ever watched 🎼🎼🎼
my definition of cool is when the weather is when the ambient temperature reach bellow 18C.
Cool vid... 😎
It's interesting to see your ideas here. I have the Glowfly/Wraa labs Retroflect lofi tape simulator, and coupled it with the Meris 'Blade Runneresque' Mercury7. But I only used it for one part just to add something 'cool'. The idea of adding multiple tracks run through the tape sim and then using the Mercury7 to tie it all together will be the next experiment. Thoroughly enjoyed this vid...
is this kind of like the strymon deco?
Is this called shallow water or deep water?
Is that a piano library at the beginning or a real recording of a piano?
Reaaaaaally intresting pedal!! Is that music sample a tune? If yes which one please?
I’ve got and have had a bunch of these “lo-fi” pedals and this is my favorite.
What lofi pedal would you suggest, to achieve the atmosohere of this Fairfield, but cheaper? 😊
@@mikkelfrederiksen5567 I can't think of any cheaper off the top of my head. The Cooper and ZVex are my other favorites and they're all on the expensive side too. I think if you have modulated reverb and delay maybe with a bit of a dirt pedal you already might have here you can cut the lows out can get you in this zone.
Great demo of how weird and varied this pedal can be! I'm excited to save up for one and try to apply it to my cues, as well as the EQD Avalanche Run.
The Empress Zoia is very inspiring!
Top notch intro my dude, instant sub
wow thank you for this! just don't quite understand what you did to make it stereo? record a loop left mono and right mono and then blend them?
You got it!
It is quite an experience when Christian cranking up the distortion exactly at the same time when you are adjusting the volume on your amp 😳😬
And yes, blue lights are cool, although violet is even cooler. Not sure about bow ties though...
Cool desk! Cool mug!
well that's refreshing!! And I haven't even arrived at the pedal part of the vid 😎
6:16 - Me, later that day to my fiance "But darling, don't you realise that it’s possibilities are much greater than simply a Wow and Flutter machine"
thank you so much for this beautifully crafted Pedal Production. Both the pedal and your [well, a review wouldn't do justice to the amount of work you've put in this and the wonderful musical results] are one of a kind! A big thanks to the Fair Circus as well
This goes out to everyone that is trying to be cool: it is inherently impossible, because cool is something that is perceived by the observer and never by the cool individual themselves. So you can only perceive "coolness" in others, never in yourself.
Almost spit my tea with the lemon thing.
As an aside re the blue light...Air will only by gear with red lights. It was something about Eros if I remember correctly
17:33 "utter scheise" :D That sounded so funny (as I am from Germany). :)
this man should have millions of subs
SUBSCRIBED. your rant ! Brilliant
Is the yellow box a reamp box next to the pedal? Does this unit not have line level then?
It’s a guitar pedal